Faith Controversy Quotes

Now let it be written in history and on Mr. Lincoln's tombstone: 'He died an unbeliever.’

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.

The agnostic is gutless and prefers to keep one safe foot in the god camp.

Let's not play games. I was suggesting - you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith.

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

The words of Jesus, including those Jefferson and the Jesus Seminar have blue-pencilled, have a unique permanence. They don't merely survive as aphoristic wisdom; they have an authority in our hearts, even when we try to deny them. They command. We can obey or rebel. That is why Jesus is still not only loved but hated - and why those who hate him feel they have to profess to love him.

After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of the most wicked, vicious, heartless hoaxes ever foisted upon the minds of men, or it is the most fantastic fact of history

Every religion there's something foul going on.

It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.

I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

At present the cheat and tricks of the priests have roused all men against them, and against Christianity.

A denial of the reality of demonical possessions on the part of anyone who believes the Gospel narrative to be true and inspired may justly be regarded as simply and plainly inconceivable.

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths.

On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarrelling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.

Whatever good religion has done, it has come at a terrible price.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.